[sf-lug] how to make a bootable USB stick from an Ubuntu 10.04 live CD?

[Ken Shaffer]

I'd suggest partitioning your 2G stick with a 830M/rest of disk dual
partition, so you may do the usb disk creation on the 830M using the minimal
128M read/write size (which creates a file casper-rw), and then label the
other partition casper-rw and delete the casper-rw file.  This gives you
enough space for whatever you'd like, and seems to boot more successfully
than when the big casper-rw file is used.  I put an ext2 filesystem on the
casper-rw and modify the fstab entry to include noatime.  As well, I put
/tmp and /var/log into ramdisks with fstab entries.
Biggest drawback from a direct to usb install (which I do on 4G sticks) is
the 3 min boot time (as opposed to a 1 min boot).  The stick is updatable,
but the updates will of course be written to the casper-rw partition, and
will take up significant room.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Micah Lee <micahflee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know how to do it directly from the LiveCD, but if you have a
> system that already has Ubuntu installed on it it's easy to make a
> bootable USB stick from there.
>
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick#Creating%20a%20bootable%20Ubuntu%20USB%20flash%20drive
>
> On 02/21/2011 03:20 PM, jim wrote:
> >
> > I can't find any instructions via search engine that make
> > sense to me. Here's what I'm hoping for:
> > * get your Ubuntu 10.04 live CD (I have one)
> > * get your 2GB or 4GB USB stick (I have one)
> > * load your Ubuntu 10.04 live CD into your CD-ROM drive (I have one)
> > * place your 2GB or 4GB USB stick into a USB slot (I have one)
> > * <DO_THIS> and wait until <SOME_SIGN_FROM_HEAVEN>
> >
> >
> >
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